Over the summer, I read the book "The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think one of the themes of the book is dissatisfaction. All of the main characters in the book should be satisfied with what they have, and yet they still want more.
Gatsby is rich, famous, and loved by so many people, and yet he decides that he has to have Daisy love him again. And even after she tells both him and Tom that she loves Gatsby, Gatsby forces her to tell Tom that she had never loved him, and that she had always loved Gatsby. Even when Gatsby had gotten what he said he wanted most (Daisy's love), he pushes his luck and makes her admit to never loving Tom. This shows that Gatsby is never fully satisfied, even though he got exactly what he thought he wanted in the first place.
Daisy had everything she thought she wanted: a rich, handsome husband, a huge house and all the dresses she could possibly want, but she needed more. She needed to have both Tom and Gatsby love her, so she would never have to choose between them. Even though she could've stayed with Gatsby before she even met Tom, and she could've been happily married to Tom, she had to have them both. This shows that no matter who she chose, she thought she would be even more unhappy, so she chose both thinking that this way, she would never have to regret her decision.
The wealthy people in this book were often careless, unhappy, and dissatisfied. Even though they thought they knew exactly what they wanted and what they would be happy with, they didn't actually know, and this made all of their problems worse. No matter what they thought would satisfy them, it always ended up dissatisfying them even more.